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Psychiatry: Therapist-free therapy | The Economist - 0 views

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    Cognitive-bias modification may put the psychiatrist's couch out of business
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Education: Learning difficulties | The Economist - 1 views

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    A PARADOX of education is that presenting information in a way that looks easy to learn often has the opposite effect. Numerous studies have demonstrated that when people are forced to think hard about what they are shown they remember it better, so it is worth looking at ways this can be done. And a piece of research about to be published in Cognition, by Daniel Oppenheimer, a psychologist at Princeton University, and his colleagues, suggests a simple one: make the text conveying the information harder to read.
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I Was Wrong, and So Are You - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    A Libertarian Economist retracts a swipe at the left-after discovering that our political leanings leave us more biased than we think.
Heather McQuaid

Experimental psychology: The roar of the crowd | The Economist - 0 views

  • Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic.
  • those subjects are WEIRD, and thus not representative of humanity as a whole. Indeed, as Dr Henrich found from his analysis of leading psychology journals, a random American undergraduate is about 4,000 times more likely than an average human being to be the subject of such a study. Drawing general conclusions about the behaviour of Homo sapiens from the results of these studies is risky.
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    Using crowd sourcing to beat the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) bias in psych experiments
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YouTube - Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? - 0 views

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    http://www.ted.com Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
Borne Mace

The psychology of power: Absolutely | The Economist - 30 views

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